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| | | | | The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 gave surviving Japanese Americans reparations and a formal apology by President Reagan for their incarceration during World War II. But its passage did not happen overnight. | |
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| | | | | More than 33,000 Japanese American men and women served in World War II. They fought as soldiers in Europe, and as translators in the Pacific. | |
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| | | | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 just months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced from their homes on the West Coast and sent to one of ten "relocation" camps, where they were imprisoned behind barbed wire for the length of the war. Two-thirds of them were American citizens. | |
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| | | A new paper looks at possible molecules for life on white dwarf stars. | ||